SOS Approach to Feeding - May 4-7 2021
When Children Won't Eat: Picky Eaters Versus Problem Feeders
Assessment and Treatment Using the SOS Approach to Feeding
The Sequential Oral Sensory (S.O.S) Approach to Feeding workshop is a trans- disciplinary program for assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties and weight/growth problems from birth to 18 years. It integrates posture, sensory, motor, behavioural/learning, medical, and nutritional factors to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding/growth problems.
SOS Approach to feeding guest lecturers
Dr Kay Toomey
Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross
Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross
Dr. Kay A. Toomey is a Paediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don’t eat for almost 30 years. She has developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with feeding problems. Dr. Toomey speaks nationally and internationally about her approach. She also acts as a consultant to Gerber Products. Dr. Toomey helped to form The Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Paediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Paediatric Feeding Center. Dr. Toomey co-chaired the Paediatric Therapy Services Department at Rose Medical Center prior to entering private practice. Dr. Toomey acted as the Clinical Director for Toomey & Associates, Inc.’s Feeding Clinic for six years and SOS Feeding Solutions at STAR Institute for eight years. Dr. Toomey is currently the President of Toomey & Associates, Inc., and acts as a Clinical Consultant to the Feeding Clinic at STAR Institute.
Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross
Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross
Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross
Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross is a Speech Pathologist with a Doctoral degree in Clinical Sciences – Health Services Research. She completed a two-year post-doctoral training in the Section of Nutrition and is a Clinical Instructor in the School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Ross has over 25 years of experience working in the NICU within several HealthONE hospitals, and with children when she was at the SOS Feeding Solutions clinic in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Ross is the creator of the SOFFI MethodSM, a feeding program for use in the NICU. She has specialized in the development of feeding skills, and the etiology and treatment of feeding and growth problems in infants and very young children from initial hospitalization through the first 5 years of life.
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May 4th-7th 2021 - Live Streamed
Registration information
4 Day Live Streamed SOS Approach to Feeding
Tuesday 4th - Friday 7th May 2021 @ 13:00 to 22:00 GMT
£649+VAT Early Bird Rate
£699+VAT Standard Rate
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Registration December 2020 - 16th April 2021